swap horses

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Major Companies Push the Limits of a Tax Break It began more than 90 years ago as a small tax break intended to help family farmers who wanted to swap horses and land.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2013

In Hollywood, Jim Moran, who has spent 82 hours looking for a needle in a haystack and once sold an ice box to an Eskimo, laid plans to swap horses in midstream.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Why, the very meat and marrow of his existence is his horse-trading; and who could swap horses and tell the truth at the same time?"

From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.

This skill in parables gave him the expression, "Better not swap horses in the middle of the stream," that gave him his second election.

From The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict by Hillis, Newell Dwight

Garrison was wiser than Phillips in his unwillingness to have the country, in the homely speech of the President, "swap horses while crossing a stream."

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry